Mutations of c-kit gene in bilateral testicular germ cell tumours in Japan

Cancer Letters

Volumn 259, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 119-126

  Sakuma, Yuji ^a   Matsukuma, Shoichi ^a   Yoshihara, Mitsuyo ^a   Sakurai, Shinji ^b   Nishii, Masahiro ^b   Kishida, Takeshi ^c   Kubota, Yoshinobu ^c   Nagashima, Yoji ^c   Inayama, Yoshiaki ^c   Sasaki, Takeshi ^d   Nakamura, Yoshiyasu ^a   Miura, Takeshi ^a   Kameda, Yoichi ^a   Tsuchiya, Eiju ^a   Miyagi, Yohei ^a  

^a KANAGAWA CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bilateral disease; c kit gene mutation; Testicular germ cell tumour

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; ONCOGENE C KIT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; SEMINOMA; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 36849048758     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canlet.2007.10.001     Document Type: Article

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